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‘Darkness Against Nature’ takes its title from the earliest work included in the exhibition; painted in 1980, the artwork exemplifies the artist’s conceptual concerns, which stem from the agency of colour and the fluidity of paint.

Committed to the notion of ‘painting with colour and form alone’, Matsumoto creates immersive compositions in a reduced palette that articulate the primacy of painterly expression. The turbulent surface of Darkness Against Nature eschews representation, and is instead wrought by dynamic, flowing movement. In it, the upper portion of the canvas is dominated by a …